Sweet potato production reached 3.99 kt in 2016 in Ecuador, according to Faostat.
This is
2.41 %
more than
in the previous year.

Historically, sweet potato production in Ecuador reached an all time high of 22.6 kt in 1962 and an all time low of 0.577 kt in 1998.
When compared to Ecuador's main peers, sweet potato production
in Brazil amounted to 669 kt and 270 kt in Peru in 2016.

Ecuador has been ranked 73rd within the group of 91 countries we follow in terms of sweet potato production,
4 places above the position seen 10 years ago.